Funding
The work of Wei Jiang was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 71172131, 71325003, 71531010). The work of Wenpo Huang was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 71502106.
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Notes on contributors
Wei Jiang
Wei Jiang is a Distinguished Professor in Operations Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He holds a B.S. (1989) in Mathematics and an M.S. (1992) in Statistics from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a Ph.D.(2000) in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests are in statistical quality control and improvement, data mining and business intelligence, and all aspects of operations management including healthcare optimization and financial risk management. He is currently an Associate Editor of Naval Research Logistics and IIE Transactions. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2005.
Wenpo Huang
Wenpo Huang is an Assistant Professor in Department of Industrial Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics from Xi’an Jiaotong University and his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Macau. His current research interests include statistical process control and data mining.